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Certain Victor In The Pandemic War

“War is the health of the state,” wrote the progressive Randolph Bourne during the First World War, after which he succumbed to the Spanish flu. America’s war on the coronavirus pandemic promises to be no exception to the axiom. However long this war requires, the gargantuan state ...

Puzzling Over COVID-19 Deaths

The numbers are preliminary, but it seems that African Americans are dying from COVID-19 at alarming rates. In Louisiana, for instance, blacks represent 70% of the dead but only 33% of the population. In Michigan, blacks comprise 33% of the infected, but 40% of the fatalities. This has ...

‘The Bill Of Rights Is Above My Pay Grade’

The loss of liberty is at hand. Every day in America, mayors and governors — not one of whom is constitutionally or lawfully empowered to author laws and assign punishments for their noncompliance — are imposing new standards of behavior that nullify liberty in the name of public ...

America: Home Of The Expert

This virus crisis has wiped out jobs, yes. But it has also created a lot of work for experts. Why everywhere you turn there is another expert. Usually on television. We have experts in drugs and making and distributing ventilators. We have experts in when to open up and close down cities and ...

Advice For Sorting Through Paperwork

Question: What advice can you offer for sorting through paperwork? Answer: We all have different comfort levels with paperwork. Some of us save everything, others shred everything. The advice I would give is somewhere in between. For personal mail, like letters, cards, e-mails with no ...

Piercing Illusion Of ‘Immigration Ban’

President Donald Trump unleashed his “April surprise” on Monday night, sending shock waves from the Beltway Swamp to Silicon Valley with a long-overdue announcement: “In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American ...